News Memory: Developing an Empirical Understanding of the News Cycle

• In Event: What's in the News?

Brief Overview

How long do issues last in the news? We develop a measure of the news cycle using a half-life weighted measure of news accumulation and hourly search query data, finding that social and political issues in the news have a half-life of 24 hours.

Authors

• Jimmy Ochieng, Indiana University

• Haley Pierce, Indiana University

• Mike Gruszczynski, Indiana University-Bloomington